Did I mention SCPA had a cell phone? No? Well to be fair, up until now it wasn't really relevant. It's relevant now.

We basically have 3 different options when it comes to cell phones.

Option1: We issue a new number on corp plan(number is owned by company)

Option2: You can use personal phone number, we'll reimburse monthly provided you fill out the forms(you own the number)

Option3: We agree to assume financial responsibility of your personal cell number and put it on our corporate account and provided we part ways amicably we'll release the number back to you(this is done by those that to us to pay for the number, but don't want to hassle with reimbursement requests.)

She went with option 3, signed the BYOD policy regarding this.

It's SCPA's last day and she is finishing up doing whatever it is she does, and the CFO stops by:

CFO: "At 5pm today, can you please terminate SCPA's access to all systems, however we've made an arrangement with her to keep her cell number on our corp account until she is able to get switched over, she has 2 weeks to complete this. During this time she's agreed to answer any questions we may have about anything she was working on"

Me: "Okay" I get her personal account information, formally release the number. All she has to do at this point is contact Verizon and the number is hers. I set my Calendar.

Fast forward 2 weeks, I come into the office fire off the email to VZSupport: "Please cancel (666)666-6666" If SCPA did what she was supposed to, I'll get an email back stating this number isn't on my account and the request can not be completed.

Me: "It's been 2 weeks, I was told send the cancellation request. The number has been cancelled" I hear her take a deep breath, I think she's grasping the situation.

SCPA: "WHAT!?!? You cancelled it, you can't do that, you need to get the number back. I need my phone."

Me: "Sorry, the request was already processed, the number is likely gone"

SCPA apologetically: "Oh no. I will request the transfer today, I didn't realize it had been so long, I'm so sorry, can you get it back"

Now anyone who has to deal with VZ enterprise knows that the consumer VZ dept and enterprise VZ dept don't exactly play well together. While I could probably get her number reactivated, reauthorize the transfer and she could get it, it would require some additional effort, if not, that number goes back into the pool. So I shoot the CFO an IM.

Me: "SCPA never transferred her number and I cancelled it this morning now she is requesting we reactivate so she can get it back. Are we under any obligation to do so?"

CFO: "No."

Me: "SCPA, yeah, I'm sorry, it's already been processed, not much I can do, you can try to call them and see what they say"

SCPA: "This can't be, is there any-"

Huey is now standing at my desk. Me:"Hang on SCPA" -mutes phone

Huey: "I can't login into SAP, when you're done with your call can you help?"

Sounds like my old roommates. We had been on a shared plan for over two years but we had all fallen out of our friendship. My husband and I had told them we would be moving on March 1st....in January. They had this crazy idea that we would just keep covering their part of the plan until they felt like paying us (they always did pay us just not always exactly by the due date).

Well that wasn't going to happen and my husband I waited until 5pm on the day it was due for them to pay us. And they didn't. So we cancelled their lines, we had tried texting and email but no one bothered to respond to us, and only paid our portion of the bill and within the hour they were calling us from other numbers all pissed off.

And good times were had by all. If I may, a quick formatting tip: you can shrink links by putting something in brackets, link to make them easier to read. Copy and paste into parenthesis and typing it out doesn't want to work all the time.

BYOD doesn't necessarily mean that you can lose your own number - that's not related to the technical side of using your phone for work. Typically you will be sent a profile which configures your phone to add an MS Exchange profile - so it's adding a new email account, contacts, calendar etc. At least on the iPhone these remain separate from your own accounts. The profile may enforce things like requiring a PIN or password access the phone, add certificates, put in an age restriction policy - pretty much everything you could configure yourself. You can see the contents of the profile and at least in the cases I've seen, you can delete the profile. If you do that, the security restrictions will go, but so will the corporate data. I did have concerns about it, but it was less intrusive than I had expected. I should say that my company had "choose your own device" rather than "bring your own device" and you might well want to keep your own stuff separate for other reasons.

I didn't say it was a lot effort. It was effort though, and I would've made that effort for about 99.99% of the people I ever worked with or even complete strangers, without question. This lady spent a year and a half trying to get me to lose my job.

I don't. That woman needs a "Come to Jesus" moment with how she regards emails from IT. She had two weeks, was advised of the consequences, and had previously been taken to task for not paying attention to Raven's emails. She should have known better.

Now, if she didn't spend her time dilly-dallying and trying to get you fired by forcing what I call passive-aggressive network down time (i.e., don't report problems for a month, as here), I suspect you would have been kinder in your work with her.